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and the scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God.
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Faith Confirmed, Not Caused
Commentators stress that Abraham's obedience in offering Isaac didn't cause his righteousness, which was credited to him by faith decades earlier (Genesis 15). Instead, his later actions 'fulfilled' or proved the genuineness of that pre-existing faith. The work was the evidence, not the cause, of his right standing with God.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And the Scripture was fulfilled which says. That is, the fair and full meaning of the language of Scripture was expressed by this act, sho…
Was fulfilled (επληρωθη). First aorist passive indicative of πληροω, the usual verb for fulfilling Scripture. So James quotes Ge 1…
19th Century
Anglican
The scripture was fulfilled.—Namely, that earlier declaration of God (Genesis 15:6) when the childless Abraham, with o…
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“The scripture” that James considers “fulfilled” is Ge 15:6; the account of the offering of Isaac on the altar appears in Ge 22:1–14 (cf. v.21). Th…
16th Century
Protestant
And the Scripture was fulfilled. Those who seek to prove from this passage of James that the works of Abraham were imputed for righteousne…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the Scripture was fulfilled (Genesis 15:6) which speaks of Abraham's faith, and the imputation of it to h…
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Those who substitute a mere intellectual belief in the gospel for the entirety of evangelical religion, as many do today, are mistaken. Undoubtedly…
